Pain: Treatment Insight Series 2020:
Pain in the body.
To understand pain we need to understand the environment that produces it.
Our bodies have a few ways of bringing pain to our attention as a way of highlighting problems in the circuit or currents.
Many instances of pain that I treat occur within the spaces between the fascial planes - which are very many indeed.
Disturbances in bio-electricity can lead to congestion, this congestion affects the localised environment and leads to nerves reporting the change as pain.
These disturbances are mainly due to changes in local environments, often by “wind” which is the influence of pathogenic influences like bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites. Or by internal environmental conditions changing to alter the natural balance such as dampness leading to phlegm buildup, or dryness leading to inflammation.
Severe blocks are reported as acute pain, a broken leg might be a good example. And also long term congestion or non rectification of abnormal Qi flow can lead to the reporting of chronic pain.
The Tibetan Daoist monks mapped 72,000 of these large to microscopic channels.
These are the very same channels that acupuncture uses to treat disorders with.
So the space is the channel - and the space exists between the fascia which is the collagenous network of high tensile and structural connective tissue that is basically everywhere within us.
“ The fascial coverings of the body are generally ignored within Western Science and Medicine because they are so thin and ubiquitous and, apparently, have little purpose beyond structural integrity. Within surgical practice, these coverings are the bedrock for surgeons who will go to great lengths to be able to move along these ‘rivers’ within the body.
This is the basis of not only good surgical practice but all keyhole surgery. It is well accepted that serious disease erupts when these layers are breached - for instance, in the spreading of infection or, most pertinently cancer.”
Dr Dan Keown: NHS Emergency Doctor and Acupuncturist.
Author of ‘ The Unchartered Body’
So these fascial structures and the spaces within and between them are crucial to us.
Clearing these spaces is crucial to wellbeing and relief of pain.
In the case of inflammation for instance, herbalists and pharmaceutical companies will attempt to influence the internal environments by altering moisture, heat, dryness, shrinking, reducing or expanding things etc.
The very crucial aspects in healing is to open these channels so water ( lymph) and bio-electricity (Qi) can flow properly.
Acupuncture does this with needles, I use resonance with my hands